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One of the things that Shunsui did genuinely take pride in was his ability to nap in almost any given circumstances, and that ability had been tried and tested on many occasions, with very successful results, but Shunsui had never realized until this particular day that he may have actually met a match.

He was not a violent man. He was very dedicated in his pacifism, which was another point of pride. And that, too, was being tested, as he was feeling an oddly murderous compulsion to find out whoever had decided to make Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day a thing, and gave Apu-san the means to celebrate it with gusto.

"I am going to have to talk to Summer-chan," he noted, mostly to himself, with another faint twitch as a period of blissful silence was then interrupted by another series of steady, determined popping bubbles, "about finding vendors with more environmentally friendly packaging..."

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"What's that sound?"

Well, Octavia had made it about two steps in the door before she first heard the popping. It was something.

"That," Shunsui's eyes dragged witheringly toward the current direction of the popping, "would be none other than the dulcet sounds of Apu-San's current obsession with popping bubble wrap..."

You'd think he'd eventually get used to it and it would fade into the background, but, alas. Apu was preventing that by stopping for a while and starting again just as soon as Shunsui thought maybe her was finished.

He shook his head lightly and turned his attention to setting two cups on the counter and pouring some sake into them, but, this time, he was taking the slightly more full one for himself before offering Octavia the other.

"It is very good to see you, Octavia-chan."

She may not speak much, but getting to hear anything that wasn't tiny plastic bubbles popping would be a treat right now, much more so coming from someone he enjoyed listening to.

Octavia cast a wary glance in Apu's general direction on her way to the counter.

"I'd ask why he's doing that, but there're never any good answers for that, are there?" she rasped, as she reached for the offered cup. "Hello, Shunsui."

A smile instantly warmed on Shunsui's face st the greeting...even if there may have been a brief, twitching faltering of it as the next round of popping began.

"Konnichiwa, Octavia-chan~ ♥," he said. "And how has your day been treating you so far ♥?"

"It's been quiet," Octavia said. It was the second day in a row she was saying that, and - she found, half to her faint surprise - her second day in a row of enjoying that she could. "I guess that's not really surprising after the weekend."

"I envy you that quiet, then ♥." It came out with a faint chuckle and another glance toward the steady, continued popping sounds. "Though I suppose it hasn't been too bad until today...how did you fare, this weekend, Octavia-chan? You'd have been proud of me, I think. I suffered being up before dawn both days, if you'd believe it ♥."

Octavia's snort was soft. "I'm not sure I can," she said. "But I was a mermaid, so..."

The island did what it wanted to, and made it impossible possible. This probably wasn't news.

"What'd you do so early?"

"Training," said Shunsui, whose grin seemed to drag right along the sardonic drawl. "Meditating. Honing my craft and my swordwork whilst shunning the vices of wine and women. Basically being precisely the sort of warrior that would bring honor to my house..."

In other words, precisely the sort of warrior he wasn't.

"And on Sunday, I helped defeat a sea dragon with the power of friendship."

And ridiculously named battle attacks, but, to be fair, that was actually not different than normal, and, actually, the attacks were actually less ridiculously named than in reality...

"What did you do, Octavia-chan," he then asked, "as a mermaid ♥?"

Octavia wasn't going to comment on how much that sounded something like the kind of warrior she'd also been, once upon a time.

"Saved Duke from potentially drowning." Which, now that she thought about it, was maybe something they should've talked about. Even if they already had far too much experience with near-death experiences, on both sides. "Not much aside from that. People-watched, sang, swam around."

She loved the memories of all the swimming. Not that she was very willing to tell anyone that.

"That's honestly a bit more than I thought you'd say ♥," Shunsui admitted with a small chuckle.

And not just because she didn't exactly say much usually.

"But that doesn't sound like a bad weekend at all. Particularly the saving part ♥."

"It wasn't," Octavia said.

And left it at that, finally sipping her sake.

(Monday morning had been rough.)

And that was much more of the simple, short, almost clipped response he'd been expecting, where it didn't leave him much to go off of and there always felt like there could have been something more. Shunsui tilted his head a little as he watched her drink, before saying, simply, "I'm glad."

Then following it up with a conversational, "Anything planned for this weekend, Octavia-chan ♥? Assuming you'll still have you'll still have those gorgeous legs this time, though I have no doubt you made for a very fetching mermaid. Probably for the best we didn't cross paths; I doubt I'd have been able to properly appreciate it ♥."

"No plans," Octavia said, with a little shake of her head. "Duke and I have this... breakfast thing we're doing, but that's only on weekdays."

And when she glanced out towards the store at large, yes, she was entertaining a fleeting wondering about whether there was anything she would like to take with her tomorrow.

"That sounds nice," Shunsui said, almost gently, with a smile to match as he followed her eyes. "Anything you need to pick up for it, then, Octavia-chan ♥? Or is this a breakfast thing at your snogon's diner?"

Octavia looked back at him. "No, it's --"

She almost said 'a home thing', but... That word was still waiting to become slightly less hopelessly complicated for her again.

"It's a boat thing," she finished. "And, I don't know." Another glance at the store. "Would be nice to bring something special."

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